James Duane Bolin

EducationPh.D., University of Kentucky, 1988M.A., University of Kentucky, 1982B.A., Belmont University 1978

PublicationsBosses of the Bluegrass: Political Bosses and Their Machines in Kentucky History (under
contract and forthcoming with the University Press of Kentucky)The Belmont Story, 1851-1951: Women’s Education in the South (under review at the
University of Tennessee Press)Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Big-Time College Basketball in America (under contract
and forthcoming in 2016)Home and Away: A Professor's Journal. Sikeston, Missouri: Acclaim Press, 2016)“The Woman Who Helps Blind Children See: Linda Neville and the Crusade to End Blindness
in Kentucky.” Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times. Ed., Melissa McEuen and Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia
Press, 2015.“In Search of the Humanities,” Regular Column in Kentucky Humanities Magazine (Spring,
2014-present)The Banner Years: Murray State Basketball, 1925-2012. Sikeston, Missori: Acclaim Press, 2013.Bossism and Reform in a Southern City: Lexington, Kentucky, 1880-1940.Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. (Finalist for the Kentucky
Historical Society’s Governor’s Award)Kentucky Baptists, 1925-2000: A Story of Cooperation. Brentwood and Nashville, Tennessee: Southern Baptist Historical Society and Fields
Publishing Incorporated, 2000. (Winner of Award of Merit from the Kentucky Historical
Society and the Historic Confederation of Kentucky)“Home and Away,” Weekly newspaper column for the Murray Ledger & Times (2005- present),
the Providence Journal-Enterprise (2008-present), the Advocate-Messenger (2012-present),
the Winchester Sun (2012-present), the Sebree Banner (2013-present)"`An Air of Tenseness’: Labor Strife and Tragedy in Kentucky's Western Coal Field,"
The Filson Club History Quarterly. January, 1999: 3-33."The Sins of the Fathers: Clifton Rodes Breckinridge Remembers the Civil War," Civil
War History. March, 1998: 35-51."Clifton Rodes Breckinridge: ‘The Little Arkansas Giant,’" Arkansas Historical Quarterly.
Winter, 1994: 407-427."The Human Side: Politics, the Great Depression, and the New Deal in Lexington, Kentucky,
1929-1935." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Summer, 1992: 256-283."From Mules to Motors: The Street Railway System in Lexington, Kentucky, 1882-1938."
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Spring, 1989: 118-143.An Abiding Faith: A Sesquicentennial History of Providence, Kentucky, 1840-1990. Providence, Kentucky: Chamber of Commerce, 1990.

Research InterestsSports History, especially Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Big-Time College Basketball;
The Religious Faith of James Madison; Dietrich Bonhoeffer, specifically his tour of
the American South in 1930 and 1931; The History of Higher Education in America. particularly
the American South